If you use and care about your local park, please consider reading the rest of this message...
Parks services are having budgets cut by an average of 30% - and parks professionals are warning the sustained denegration of parks could usher in an era of, at best, poorly maintained parks and at worst, parks taken over by graffiti/drugs/litter or just sold off.
Please check out the Make Parks A Priority campaign - (see and 'like' www.facebook.com/makeparksapriority) which is lobbying government for an formal inquiry into the situation and the fact that there is no national governmental department responsible for parks.
Parks are lifeblood for families and people of all ages, helping prevent obesity, fostering an interest in nature, improving fitness and well being and ultimately cutting costs for the NHS.
Also on Twitter @parksapriority / #makeparksapriority
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